On Wednesday 14 December 2005 8:42, Stef Coene wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 05:01, GREG & AMY LINDLEY wrote:
> > Matt/Tom/Joshua,
> >
> > Ugh! I stand corrected. It does indeed no longer function as I
> > once
> > thought. I spent some time verifying this before I responded. In a
> > prior
> > release (I don't know which one), mythtv used to respond to the
> > mouse (it
> > wasn't visible, but you could click on menu items and they would be
> > selected).
> I use mythtv (0.18.1-5, ubuntu) and the mouse is indeed not working in
> the
> menu's. But in the settings page, the mouse is working fine. I run
> mythtv
> in a window, maybe that changes the mouse behaviour.
No, that's not it. IIRC a good bit of the UI layer was changed a while
back. I think earlier iterations were a little more purely derived
from the Qt widgets, so using the mouse just inherently worked for a
lot of them (even though you couldn't see the pointer). That was
changed a while back, I think (though I can't remember how long ago).
There are probably a few places where clicking with the mouse may still
work (apparently some of the settings pages), but it's the exception
rather than the rule.
There's a major UI layer overhaul in progress. The new UI layer relies
more on OpenGL (if you have it) for lots of eye candy, though there's a
Qt fallback mode, I think. The mouse-enabling patch that was recently
posted is meant to work with this new UI code; I don't konw whether
it'll be included in the 0.20 release or not.
-JAC